Bedrock & Paradox

Food for the upcoming North Fork 100 trip in Glacier NP. Spot tracker here.

It can be an elusive thing.  1/2 mile into the climb up Blue Mountain with Jill this evening I felt like garbage, barely able to turn a reasonable cadence on the flat parts.  Ugg.  I thought that last week’s three week binge, separated with only one rest day from Sheep, had been too much.  Fortunately…

Will Gadd is a smart guy.  If you don’t semi-regularly read his blog (in sidebar), I’d suggest that you do.  I learn a lot from it.  Besides the kinship I feel with him (we both spent time at Colorado College, climbing some of the world’s weirdest “sport routes” freeing old Carter drilled angle ladders), I…

I know about you local lurkers. Montanans who, whilst drinking Double Haul and wearing flip flops, disparage blogs and the culture of internet beta as anathema to the Montana way. This isn’t Colorado, you say, the way you find out about the real snow/trail/fishing conditions is to know people, and talk to them face to…

Is freaking awesome. Gorgeous evening for a ride. A bit hot going up the pavement to the TH, but I enjoyed getting a good sweat going for really the first time this year. Ride up to Blue Point (at 7k) to enjoy the view, then rip back down. We even benefited from our bear attractant…

Summer in Montana is the season of light. We’ve got more of it than we know what to do with, and after a rainy and cloudy June everyone in town seems to revel in it. Things like cleaning, laundry, and shoping for food are cast aside when a post-work adventure can feature 4+ hours of…

An hour ago I was sitting on a picnic table outside Bridge Pizza, scarfing two pieces of spinach, sun dried tomato, and garlic on white (olive oil sauce).  I was returning from an after-work adventure, the sun was setting on a bluebird evening, and life was good.  Things seemed even rosier as a young lady…

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13108357&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 I tried a new style on this one, and I think it turned out well.

Isle Royale media is being processed; the film is finished and (slooowly) uploading. Here’s the crew negotiating one of the “notorious” beaverdam crossings on the western Minong. While the Minong is steep in places, and on the rocky ridges the trail is easy to loose, it would be harder to get more than 50 meters…

My stepdad, Dick, becomes eligible for social security today. I don’t think he’ll be taking the feds up on it though, he did just hike across Isle Royale. He’s also an extraordinary craftsmen, and at my relatives place on Saturday, we celebrated Independence Day early with a piece of his handywork. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13100004&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 My uncle contributed…